Way Definition

ways
noun
ways
A means of passing from one place to another, as a road, highway, street or path.
The Appian Way.
Webster's New World
Room or space for passing; free area; an opening, as in a crowd or traffic.
Clear a way for the ambulance.
Webster's New World
An opening affording passage.
This door is the only way into the attic.
American Heritage
Space to proceed.
Cleared the way for the parade.
American Heritage
A route or course that is or may be used to go from one place to another.
Highway, railway, one-way street.
Webster's New World
pronoun
(Sussex) The South Downs Way.
We're walking along the Way now.
Wiktionary

Christianity (in translations of texts from the 1st century AD, notably the Acts of the Apostles)

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Wiktionary
adverb
To a considerable extent or distance; far; well.
Way beyond, way in, way back.
Webster's New World
Much; to a considerable degree.
Way better, way more, way too slow.
Webster's New World
Really, very, extremely, etc.
Hip friends who are way cool.
Webster's New World
From this place; away.
Go way.
American Heritage
Used in response to no way to indicate affirmation contradicting a negative assertion.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
other
See also way.
Wiktionary
interjection

(only in reply to no way) It is true.

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verb

(obsolete) To travel.

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Synonyms:
idiom
all the way
  • From beginning to end; completely:

    drove all the way from Detroit to Pittsburgh.

American Heritage
by the way
  • Incidentally:

    By the way, you forgot to cash that check.

American Heritage
by way of
  • Through; via:

    flew to the Far East by way of the polar route.

  • As a means of:

    made no comment by way of apology.

American Heritage
go out of (one's)
  • To inconvenience oneself in doing something beyond what is required.
American Heritage
in a way
  • To a certain extent; with reservations:

    I like the new styles, in a way.

  • From one point of view:

    In a way, you're right.

American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Way

Noun

Singular:
way
Plural:
-ways

Origin of Way

  • From Middle English wei, wai, weighe, from Old English weġ, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian wei, Low German Weg, Dutch weg, German Weg, Danish vej, Swedish väg, Latin vehō, via, Albanian udhë.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English weg wegh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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